#r

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

Calm your tits, pussycat. ↗

— Ella Dominguez

#erotic #funny-quotes #art

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#introversion #neuroticism #art

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

#create #creates #creation #desire #divine

Bad artists always admire each others work. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#creativity #dreaming #procrastination #writing #art

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#art

Art is not in some far-off place. ↗

— Lydia Davis

#creativity #writer-s-block #art

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#art

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it. ↗

— Stefan Balint

#photography #art